USB portable drive weirdness

[William Park]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 04:40:01PM -0400, Peter King wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 12:28:21PM -0400, Colin McGregor wrote:
>  
> > My suggestions, are use the Y USB cable, and plug that
> > into two different USB ports. If that doesn't work,
> > get a powered USB hub (where the hub has its own wall
> > tumor style power supply), connect the drive into
> > that...
> 
> The clever idea of plugging the Y-USB cable into two ports on the
> desktop machine does not work, alas. I'll be getting a decent USB
> hub shortly, it seems.

Even with Y-cable, you have to plug into "powered" USB ports.  500mA is
the max, but only for initial surge.  I believe steady-state max is
about half of that (can't remember).

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